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Good Bye FCP X, for now
I cut two 20 min instructional videos, and two 10 mins sales pitch pieces. HD from my AF-100, on a 13inch mac book pro. It was impressive.
On my mac book retina, I cut a 14min short film.
What can I say. For laying in the first cut, and playing around with your edit fcp x is a powerful tool, and I think it is unmatched. It easily allowed me to edit on my tiny macbook. That got me the money to buy a new macbook. But that is where the easy and greatness of the product stops.
I find everything after the first edit clunky and darn right difficult. Audio editing is slow and cumbersome, and breaking about the audio, is scary because of how easily you can lose sync. I found that I get really annoyed at waiting for the right tool to pop up if you are not zoomed in close enough. (no I wanted to move the audio clip, not add a fade)
Trying to finish audio editing on a short film was a nightmare. I just didn’t have the speed. Assigning the role is a slow and cumbersome process, where before it was just move it into the right track.
Trying to integrate my after effects was a headache. (I actually found it easier just to grab the original clip, then to do the export out of FCP X)
During the day i’m a DS editor. So all this other work was freelance. Now that CS6 is out, and I have a fast computer, I think I will give it a spin. In CS^, to finalize the project, and take it to the goal line is much easier, for my work flow.
I might revisit fcp x when I play with smoke more, but for now it just does not go the distance.
That is why I want in final cut pro X, a feature request. Edit in track mode!!! So you can throw down your first cut in “first cut mode” then finish the edit in “track” mode. (if i read correctly, the guy that created fcp x, was actually making a program called first cut. That is what it feels like to me)
So good bye for now.
Brooks
“I dream in 32bit float”Brooks Tomlinson
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[Brooks Tomlinson] “What can I say. For laying in the first cut, and playing around with your edit fcp x is a powerful tool, and I think it is unmatched.”
[Brooks Tomlinson] ” Edit in track mode!!! So you can throw down your first cut in “first cut mode” then finish the edit in “track” mode.”
I’m officially a broken record. X will become universally useful when it becomes FCP8. Heard that before?
Re: recent discussion about “B”-roll editing workflow. Its the newsroom. Standup. Voice Over. Support footage. Unscripted. Throw on a super. Done. Upload/Air. It is where X lives, but, unfortunately, as far as its creators can see. As pointed out, its unfair to lump this standard professional workflow to the auteur You-Tube, vanity, home movie market, but as sophisticated and annoyingly “helpful” the Apple AI is, it is still a very small boat in a very big ocean.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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Brooks,
I’d encourage you to post your experiences with PPro when you’ve done a project or two – I’d be interested in hearing more.
Franz.
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Well it’s good to hear you managed well on a 13″ MBP.
Some us are not that fearless 🙂 -
[Franz Bieberkopf] “I’d encourage you to post your experiences with PPro when you’ve done a project or two – I’d be interested in hearing more.”
Seconded.
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You forgot to say “Thanks for all the fish.”
😉
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Okay, Will do, I have two 60sec simple promo’s coming up. But they will require some aftereffects. So I will let you know how it goes.
Brooks
Brooks Tomlinson
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yea, I was thinking that in my head when I made the post. So long and thanks for all the fish! Which is almost exactly what happened. I made enough cash to spring board up to a bigger computer, and can afford adobe cloud now.
Brooks
“I Dream in 32bit Float”Brooks Tomlinson
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[Brooks Tomlinson] “During the day i’m a DS editor… I might revisit fcp x when I play with smoke more”
And I’d be very interested to hear your take on DS vs. Smoke, if you don’t mind sharing.
I’ve been lurking on the DS-L for sometime, trying to get excited about DS, but even the new v11 just doesn’t do it for me — particularly for graphics.
I have been noodling some with Smoke 2013 and I’m really excited about the possibilities there.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Joseph Owens] “I’m officially a broken record. X will become universally useful when it becomes FCP8. Heard that before?”
Preach it, Brother!
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[Walter Soyka] “I have been noodling some with Smoke 2013 and I’m really excited about the possibilities there.”
I’ve been meaning to ask….. I have migrated from 7 to X, and have solid “big room” linear, Quantel and Avid background, but I have no idea what learning Smoke will do for me…… Can somebody spell that out to me please?
I have downloaded the trial, played with it for 30 minutes, and it felt clunky to me.
Thanksdon walker
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